Albanese said he wants iron ore exported to China “without hindrance”; Treasurer to speak with BHP’s CEO. Follow live.

In an instance similar to one two years ago, two pieces of gun legislation were voted down while a third squeaked by with a handful of defections from both sides of the aisle.

O'Neil copped a grilling from Barr when she appeared on the program on Wednesday alongside Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie ...

The White House has withdrawn Brian Quintenz’s nomination to serve as a board member and chair of the Commodity Futures ...

The Trump administration has withdrawn its nominee to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a White House official confirmed Tuesday evening. Brian Quintenz, global head of ...

Other programs that continue are those funded by user fees. The U.S. Postal Service, which is self-funded, is expected to operate as usual. Unemployment benefits are typically administered by U.S.

The collision of a state budget impasse with a federal government shutdown is unprecedented in the commonwealth.

The former defense attorney at the center of a decades-long DWI scheme conducted backdoor deals from a home office in ...

The U.S. government is on the brink of the first federal government shutdown in almost seven years. Prospects look bleak for ...

Senate Democrats on Tuesday voted almost in unison to defeat a House-passed bill to fund government through Nov. 21, putting Washington on the brink of a government shutdown that could last for ...

Some House and Senate lawmakers are requesting that their paychecks be withheld as millions of federal workers prepare to go ...

At Philadelphia's IRS building, Alex Jay Berman, the National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 71 executive vice president, ...